The National Pork Producers Council joined the National Pork Board in presenting former Michigan Pork Producers Association Executive Vice President Sam Hines with the Paulson-Whitmore State Executive Award.

If China purchases at least 350,000 tons of U.S. pork each year for five years, the total deal would be worth approximately $3.5 billion in sales, estimates Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University economist.

More than 45 groups representing the diverse U.S. economy joined the National Pork Producers Council, calling for an end to U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican aluminum and steel so the U.S. can benefit from USMCA.

In response to erroneous reports in the news and (mostly) on social media, NPPC is reminding pork producers and consumers that federal meat inspectors are working in meat packing plants despite the government shutdown.

More than 50 food and agriculture organizations insist that trade deal between the U.S. and the European Union include agriculture and address the EU’s restrictive tariff and non-tariff barriers to U.S. farm products.

While the fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement in the United States awaits Congress's return after the November elections to Washington, D.C., many of the other TPP partner countries already are making